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jaddle

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Registered: 2025-12-28

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wrapper-2.0 filling up xsession-errors

Just backed up my machine, and when it took a bit longer than usual, I had a look, and found that ~/.xsession-errors had ballooned to 39 gigs! I hadn't rebooted in well over a month, but that's still excessive. A large amount of the messages in it are of this form:

(wrapper-2.0:8969): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 13:03:43.828: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID

process 8969 looks like this in ps:

 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 20971533 systray Status Tray Plugin Provides status notifier items (application indicators) and legacy systray items

Some testing showed that a new account on the same machine didn't seem to have the same errors, so it must be something specific to this account. I tried moving ~/.config/xfce4 in case some old settings were to blame (some stuff in this account dates back literally decades...!), but it didn't seem to have an effect on the errors. Any way to track down what's causing it? Seems it should be fixable, especially since the new account wasn't producing the same errors.

Added later 02 min 01 s:
Forgot to mention that this is on a debian system that I upgraded to trixie (latest stable) shortly before seeing the problem. (it's possible the problem was happening earlier too, I suppose, though I think I would have noticed if xsession-errors were getting that big.

eriefisher

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Registered: 2008-10-25

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Re: wrapper-2.0 filling up xsession-errors

It is possible that the upgrade to Trixie got "confused" but there has been some issues on and off with libdbusmenu for a while now. You could try a dist-upgrade and/or reinstall libdbusmenu......

How did you upgrade to Trixie?

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jaddle

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Registered: 2025-12-28

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Re: wrapper-2.0 filling up xsession-errors

I had a hard time with the upgrade, actually. In the past (going back 20+years!) I had always done something like, update /etc/apt/sources.list, then 'aptitude update ; aptitude dist-upgrade'. Though that didn't work at all this time around. A million conflicts that were completely unmanageable. So I ended up following more-or-less the instructions from https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-upgr … 13-trixie/ : 'apt update', 'apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs', then 'apt full-upgrade'. Seemed to work, though I've seen a lot of little glitches on my system since... considering a reinstall, but I'd really rather not if I can avoid it!

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 841

Re: wrapper-2.0 filling up xsession-errors

From your link

During this process, you may encounter conflicts with configuration files.

This is likely the issue. You could back up your configs and effectively great a fresh restart one at a time. There were a lot of changes in Debian and Xfce so a left over config could screw things up. I run against Sid/Unstable just to avoid these types of issues.

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